HBO has snapped up the rights to a new 1950s-set noir series from David Fincher (Gone Girl) and crime writer James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential) entitled Shakedown, which is based upon a script Ellroy originally developed for FX.
Deadline reports that the project is an original tale as opposed to an adaptation of Ellroy’s 2012 novella of the same name, and “is set in the tabloid world and the underbelly of Los Angeles in the 1950s and centers on a real-life private detective, legendary 1950s Hollywood vice cop-turned-private eye Fred Otash.”
This is not the first time that Fincher and Ellroy have worked together, having collaborated on an unrealised miniseries adaptation of Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia, which was in development prior to the 2006 movie from Brian De Palma.
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Originally published December 20, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
